Foreshadowing In The Interlopers

What makes the ending of “The Interlopers” surprising is the last word “wolves”, because the author makes this story with irony. The author does prepare me for the ending by having the story say “Are they your men?” asked Georg, “are they your men” he repeated impatiently, as Ulrich did not answer. “No” said Ulrich with a laugh, the idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear. “Who are they” asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. “Wolves.” How “Nature’s own violence” overwhelms the men in “The Interlopers” is Nature makes it snow and a tree falls down pinning them down and lastly it overwhelms them by wolves at the end of the story. In the story it says “and before the moment of hesitation had given way to action and a deed of Nature’s own violence overwhelmed them both.” At that point in the story the “Nature’s own violence” comes in to play and begins the slow death of the two rival and …show more content…
The needless conflict between Ulrich and Georg is the fighting of who owns the land and the generations of hate because of their ancestors didn’t like each other. In the story it says “A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgement of the courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the